My Book Affair – Romeo Oriogun
How I Discovered Books; If I am to be honest with myself, all my life I’ve suffered from one form of depression or anxiety about being depressed or an extreme form of mania, I can’t say when it started but…
Kreative Diadem Annual Creative Writing Contest
The Kreative Diadem is a platform for poets and writers to share their literary works. Kreative Diadem is committed to celebrating creativity in writers and poets who give their all day and night to add beauty to our world. The…
My Fashion Nationalism – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Suit: Mae Otti, Lagos (Dior event, Los Angeles) My mother always dressed us well. Me in little girl dresses cinched at the waist, my brothers in suits and well-ironed shirts. To go out, she said, we had to “di ka…
My Book Affair – Chiamaka Nwangwu
I fell in love at a very young age. It was a love that consumed me so much, a love that affected everything I would become. It was not the love of a person, it was the love for books….
Conversations With Munachim Amah
Munachim is a breath of fresh air! I totally enjoyed talking to him. In this interview he talks about sexuality, his writivism win and story, money spent on books, his love for Teju Cole and Kambili; a character in Purple…
First Lady of Kaduna, set to release her Debut Novel – An Abundance Of...
Hadiza Isma, First Lady of Kaduna State is set to release her debut novel – AN ABUNDANCE OF SCORPIONS. It will be launched at the 2017 Ake Festival!!! About The Book: Following a harrowing family tragedy, Tambaya decides to leave Kano…
SERENDIPITY – Creative Writing, Yasmin and I (An Essay) – Hadiza Isma...
My daughter, Yasmin died of an epileptic seizure in her flat in London in November 2011. People might wonder why in my quest to keep her memory alive I would involve myself in the promotion of creative writing. I choose…
Ake Festival 2017 : This F-Word
Ake Festival 2017 is almost here! Ake Festival is a five day programme of cultural immersion. 100 Novelists, poets, dancers, actors, illustrators, activists, musicians, artists and thinkers storm the historic city and share their work and their ideas. The fifth…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on One of the seven covers of T – 2017 Greats...
The 2017 T Greats issue, coming out on the 22nd of October, celebrates masters in their fields: an innovator of modern theater, an influential auteur, an author turned public intellectual, an artist redefining sculpture, a fashion designer with a painter’s eye, an actor who’s perfected the art of the subtle —…
Google Doodle honours Equiano by celebrating the 272nd year since his birth
Words can’t describe how excited I was to see Olaudah Equaino’s picture up as the Google Doodle for today, 16th October 2017. I remember coming across a beautiful book; EQUIANO’S TRAVELS while I was in my final year at the…